PRESS & CREATORS

Small flies.
A curious beginning.

BanaBuzz is a six-minute scent-strategy game inspired by fruit-fly brain-mapping research.

Title BanaBuzz / 바나버즈

Genre Casual 3D strategy

Modes Online 1v1/2v2 with invitations or quick matchmaking, plus AI and one-device practice

Languages English and Korean on the web

Available now Free browser game, no game account required · Also on itch.io ↗

Mobile iOS 1.0 (build 1), submitted to the South Korean App Store under the previous Korean name, 향기리그, has not been approved or released. Additional review information requested by Apple is being prepared. The brand, localization and new web online features will be addressed separately in a later app update. Android release preparation is ongoing.

Community Discord · English & Korean ↗

Contact lingerlow@naver.com

The one-line pitch

Don’t command the flies. Tempt them with fruit, disrupt their senses, and grow your team in a six-minute rivalry.

The research story

The project started by exploring fruit-fly connectomes. Its separate sweet-taste neural experiment used a reduced FlyWire v630-derived network of 474 neurons and 23,151 directed connections with a simplified spiking model.

BanaBuzz turns that curiosity about sensing and behavior into a game. Its current controller uses simplified scent differences, obstacle avoidance and search rules. Gameplay does not run the FlyWire connection matrix and is not a complete brain simulation.

Implementation boundaries and original research sources ↗

This is an independently developed game, not a FlyWire product or an endorsement by its researchers. The current game has no ads or in-app purchases. Online play needs a continuous internet connection. Invitation rooms start when the creator has two or four real players; quick matchmaking waits for players in the same mode.

Play in English ↗

Real gameplay video

Actual BanaBuzz browser gameplay in English. You may use the video and its poster in coverage of BanaBuzz with the game’s name credited.

Download gameplay video · MP4 ↓Download poster · JPEG ↓

Open the playtest page ↗

Real gameplay images

The first image shows the earlier English browser presentation, before online web 1.0.4. The other images show app version 1.0 before the rename, in Korean. You may use them in coverage of BanaBuzz with the game’s name credited.